For anyone who has slogged through the Ben-Gurion study, including the full text, looking for exactly this information, it simply is not there. You can stop hunting now. In a weight loss study there is NO REPORT of the absolute calories consumed! Either the DIRECT group does not include anyone who can present data or they are too scared of their own data to actually present it! But for people with a LC bias and honest data, there is no need for fear. Just generate the data, let the truth speak and and expect to be ignored! But not for ever....

A few IMT changes in a LCKD group over 6m would be nice too! I guess they are on their way if Dr Westman has anything to do with it.

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Don't miss "Cancer as a metabolic disease" by Thomas N Seyfried and Laura M Shelton also in Nutrition & Metabolism Jan 2010. IMO, the most thorough review on cancer and its relationship to mitochondrial dysfunction.

It makes one wonder what could have been to the war on cancer if the Warburg's hypothesis had found more converts.

Peter,I consider you and Dr. Feinman (who heads up Nutrition and Metabolism) both rock stars. What a good comparison you make regarding the amount of detail provided by an LC-biased researcher following the scientific method... vs. the nonhuman high carb dogma. Awesome.

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I am Petro Dobromylskyj, always known as Peter. I'm a vet, trained at the RVC, London University. I was fortunate enough to intercalate a BSc degree in physiology in to my veterinary degree. I was even more fortunate to study under Patrick Wall at UCH, who set me on course to become a veterinary anaesthetist, mostly working on acute pain control. That led to the Certificate then Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia and enough publications to allow me to enter the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia as a de facto founding member. Anaesthesia teaches you a lot. Basic science is combined with the occasional need to act rapidly. Wrong decisions can reward you with catastrophe in seconds. Thinking is mandatory.
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